monterail/guidelines — pull request #176 by teamon (2013-10-24 23:20:49+00:00)
Title: Disable Rack::Cache for rails < 4

In Rails prior to 4 when there is set

```
config.action_controller.perform_caching = true
```

Rails will automagicly add `Rack::Cache` middleware to the top of stack. This will cause request with cache headers to be cached which can break e.g. authentication when you want to send cache headers but also always require http basic auth. It is also much better to use nginx or varnish as cache in case auth is not an issue.

For Rails 4 - https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/7838

@jandudulski, @sheerun, @chytreg, @teamon, @szajbus, @Ostrzy, @jcieslar, @tallica